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Collection consists of thousands of bookplates from the United States, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, Iran, Russia, and South Africa. Includes several hundred children's bookplates, some highlighted by Kate Greenaway and…
Correspondence, writings, pamphlets, leaflets, slides, and photographs, relating to South African political parties; Afrikaner and African nationalism; the Afrikaner Broederbond; American, Japanese, and North Korean propaganda and psychological warfare methods…
The collection contains mostly studio portraits of the family of Barbara Rayson in South Africa, Russia and the United States from the 1890s to the 1930s. The set of studio…
Bernhard and Rosette Schragenheim, with their son Julian, arrived in South Africa in 1934, to escape the Nazi regime in Germany. The bulk of the material is from Germany and…
Correspondence, telegrams, notes, memoranda, clippings, accounts, lists, protocols, reports, inventories, and published materials, relating to the evacuation of the war orphans from Russia to Oudtshoorn, the establishment and operation of…
John Marcum's papers primarily date from the late 1950s through the mid-1980s. The collection is arranged with most series organized in alphabetical order, including files on various countries. Within the…
The materials comprising the British Correspondence and Miscellany Collection are dated from 1556 to 1972 (bulk 1740-1890). The papers are arranged into the following series: Correspondence, 1556-1972 and undated; Subject Files,…
On 12 September 2019, the National Library in collaboration with the Russian Embassy in Mauritius proceeded with the launching ceremony of the “Russia Corner”. The event was held in the…
George Latsky is the owner and ever since he was a child he has had an obsession with all things radio. He started his collection very young and has trawled…
The historical collections of painting and sculpture within the Art Collections Department of Iziko Museums embrace a wide range of works for art that are both South African and foreign…